Re: problems revealed by new demos

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

>On Wednesday 29 September 2004 11:42 pm, Petr Mikulik wrote:
>  
>
>>>'set term table' could take an optional file name,
>>>leaving the value of "set output" unchanged.
>>>      
>>>
>>I think that's the best solution.
>>    
>>
>
>I have been looking at Harald Harder's patch to replace
>the existing epslatex.trm with a new driver that piggybacks
>on most of the post.trm driver routines.  I will leave general
>discussion of that to people who actually use the epslatex
>terminal. 
>

No feeling on your main point, but I read through the patch comments 
because epslatex is one of my fav terminals.  For the most part, 
everything the patch does to enhance or correct problems sounds good to 
me.  Individual comments:

 > This approach ensures that new developments
 > of the postscript terminal are available in epslatex,
 > automatically.

This is very nice.

 > In addition to the old epslatex syntax and the
 > postscript options for epslatex (for example, rounded,
 > linewidth, dashlength), the patch supports:
 > - coloured text with epslatex (which can be switched on
 > and off locally for one plot or globally in the
 > preamble of the LaTeX document),

xfig added color text a year or two ago.  Requires as an additional 
LaTeX package, but no big deal.  Probably more use for colored text in 
gnuplot than in xfig.

I see another there is another patch on SourceForge that may be conflicting:

743667 Epslatex term merged w/ pslatex/pstex

Are these related?  Can they be combined?  The concepts sound the same, 
i.e., to combine the postscript related terminals in a better fashion.

On the subject of PostScript, I recall someone submitting a patch for 
using grayscale backgrounds in PostScript.  Looked promising at the time.

Dan